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“Dick Costolo (CEO, Twitter) who worked for Google at the time (having sold Google his company, Feedburner) and came up with many monetization ideas but they fell on deaf ears. Costolo, of course is working hard to mine those affinity-and-context connections for Twitter, and is succeeding.” — http://gigaom.com/2013... - × × ×

“Reader exhibits the best unpaid representation I’ve yet seen of a consumer’s relationship to a content producer. You pay for HBO? That’s a strong signal. Consuming free stuff? Reader’s model was a dream. Even better than Netflix. You get affinity (which has clear monetary value) for free, and a tracked pattern of behavior for the act of iterating over differently sourced items – and a mechanism for distributing that quickly to an ostensible audience which didn’t include social guilt or gameification – along with an extensible, scalable platform available via commonly used web technologies – all of which would be an amazing opportunity for the right product visionary. Reader is (was?) for information junkies; not just tech nerds. This market totally exists and is weirdly under-served (and is possibly affluent).” — Chris Weatherell, http://massless.org/?p=174 - × × ×

"If, by the way, you think the solution is to stay on DST throughout the year, I can only tell you that we tried that back in the 70s and it didn’t turn out well. Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter.1 It was the same on the East Coast. Nobody liked that." - × × ×

“An exclusive first look at the latest from Nicholas Felton, life quantification guru and Facebook Timeline designer.” • #говоря_статистически • #таймлайны • #визуализация • #aqsc - × × ×

“What!? How is this even possible? Because science, my friends. Brusspup’s latest video explores what happens when a stream of water is exposed to an audio speaker producing a loud 24hz sine wave. If I understand correctly the camera frame rate has been adjusted to the match the vibration of the air (so, 24fps) thus creating … magic zigzagging water. Or something.” • #the_daily_wtf - × × ×

“This site is designed to teach you the basics with an easy process to follow, and pointers for where to learn more. The process we illustrate has three layers: Discovery, Strategy and Design.” - × × ×

“A First Look — The New York Times is redesigning its Web site — starting with the article experience. See what’s different, and request access at the bottom of the page.” • #редизайн - × × ×

отлично! - последние дни настали

#музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

“Although 49 percent of the city’s residents live in public or subsidized housing, the city has rents 35 percent higher than New York City. ... [A]ccording to the Society for Community Organization, 100,000 of the city’s laborers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet. The Hong Kong based advocacy organization commissioned and released these photographs, depicting the living conditions inside these apartments from the only vantage point able to capture the entire unit—directly above.” #города_и_люди - × × ×

В отличие от инсталляций IKEA "квартира 30 м2" и "квартира 17 м2", уже даже не ад. - Prometa

"A positive outlook is the most important predictor of resilience. It's not just Hollywood magic." • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

Counter-intuitively, another study found that facing down adversity by venting -- hitting a punching bag or being vengeful toward someone who makes you angry -- actually leads to people feeling far worse, not better. Actually, doing nothing at all in response to anger was more effective than expressing the anger in these destructive ways. - Michael Bravo

Теперь в top grossing поправить позиции, и всё будет ок. - × × ×

"He just needed to create a complete set of 176 12-pixel by 12-pixel characters that could cover the entire breadth of human emotion" - × × ×

“I'm not angry” sign, the sinceriod, sarcastises, hemi-demi-semi colon, andorpersand, mockwotation marks, superellipsis, Morgan Freemark” • #рубрика_прекрасное - × × ×

Скримейджеровские три дефиса я воспринимаю примерно как superellipsis, да. - × × ×

“A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients--powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.” - × × ×

http://www.youtube.com/watch... — How colored pencils are made. - × × ×

“The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space.” - × × ×

Reader Liberation Front. • #редизайн - × × ×

"This is a haphazard process. The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay segment in it, which is more or less established by tradition. And then the interesting part in this contract is how much is left to the peer review process, which is very complicated. It involves various layers of mutual assessment. "In companies like Microsoft or elsewhere, usually the bonus is something between 8, 15, 20 percent of the basic salary. In Valve, I'm told, there's no upper limit to bonuses. Bonuses can end up being 5, 6, 10 times the level of the basic wage." "Gabe [Newell] had this view from the beginning. He wanted a community of partners, he didn't want to be the boss of anyone or to be bossed around by anyone." - × × ×

«За счет повышения налогов власти планировали сократить дефицит Пенсионного фонда на 40 миллиардов рублей. Предприниматели, в свою очередь, с самого начала предупреждали, что будут закрывать бизнес или «уходить в тень» и не будет ни честного бизнеса, ни налогов. Это в итоге и произошло. По данным Федеральной налоговой службы, только за декабрь и январь в России было ликвидировано 208 тысяч ИП. Сокращение числа предпринимателей зафиксировано практически во всех регионах страны. Как пишет «Российская газета» со ссылкой на данные «Опоры России» (занимается защитой прав малого бизнеса), такое снижение числа ИП уже сейчас лишило местные бюджеты налоговых поступлений на 3,5 миллиарда рублей. По оценке Минэкономразвития, если такие тенденции в секторе индивидуального предпринимательства сохранятся, к концу 2013 года он потеряет около миллиона рабочих мест. Для сравнения, именно столько сейчас в России составляет вся зарегистрированная безработица». • #рукономика - × × ×

"For five years I have been a recluse. I don't leave the house for months at a time. I venture out into the world only when it is necessary to maintain my isolation. I'm not agoraphobic, I'm not depressed, and I'm not insane. I simply don't socialize." - × × ×

“You don't just get up one day and say "Fuck it, people suck. I'm not going out anymore". It's not that you cant do that, believe me, there are people that can and do, it's just that the world wont let you. If you just quit the world immediately, without any warning, then the world freaks out; a million text messages will be sent, cops will be called to check on you, interventions will be held, walruses will be dispatched on rescue scooters. Well not that last one, but I have to keep you, the reader, on your toes.” - × × ×

“Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena have now combined the two. As part of his Master thesis Dario Brescianini, student at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, has developed algorithms that allow quadrocopters to juggle an inverted pendulum. If you are not sure what that means (or how that is even possible), have a look at his video “Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics”. • #now_this_is_awesome ∙ #гудрон - × × ×

Ждём квадрокоптеры, укрощающие тигров. И лезгинка. - × × ×

робонинзя. немного же нам осталось, брате - ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ StandardError

#flickrussian - × × ×